Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and Korea and Taiwan from the late 1960s has …

A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in …

absence of imports the United Kingdom could feed itself. Oil and chemical inputs into agriculture are probably more vulnerable …

increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies …. Scarce government funds could be better used to support agriculture by providing partial loan guarantees, thus reducing … and trade policies should be used to support CEE agriculture, citing the example of OECD nations, and in particular the …

Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi and other ‘world historians’, the prosperous parts of Asia between …. The ‘Great Divergence’ between Europe and Asia was already well underway before 1800. …